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SUMMARY:Hen\, Mistress of Mayhem: A Portrait of Henrietta Moraes
DESCRIPTION:Darren Coffield in conversation with James Cahill\nHen\, Mistress of Mayhem: A Portrait of Henrietta Moraes\nSunday 28 June 2026\, 4.00pm\nThe Gibberd Garden\, Marsh Lane\, Harlow\, Essex\, CM17 0NA\nDarren Coffield will be exploring his book\, Hen Mistress of Mayhem: A Portrait of Henrietta Moraes\, providing  a unique insight into 1950-60s Bohemia and the key players of the fashion\, music and art scene.\n\nHen\, Mistress of Mayhem takes you to the epicentre of Soho’s Golden Age; stage by stage it forms a complete guide to a hell-raising companion.\n\nUniquely told from the viewpoint of the women who knew her\, including Maggi Hambling\, not the famous male artists who painted her.\n\nTickets:\n£15 / £12 concessions (students\, under 27s and unwaged)\nor both events for £25 / £18 concessions\n\nBox Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948\nPart of our Harlow weekend - Essex Book Festival is delighted to be heading to Harlow for a weekend of writing workshops\, author and artist talks\, family games\, and poetry. Find out more at essexbookfestival.org.uk/harlow-weekend/.\n\nEvent Information\n💬 The event will include an audience Q&A session.\n📚 Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the day.\n🖊️ After the event there will be an opportunity to get the book signed by the author.\n🪑 Seats are unallocated.\n📸 We will be filming and taking photos at this event.\n\n\nTicket Deal\n\nMake an afternoon of it with our Gibberd Garden ticket deal - Tickets £15 per event or both events for £25 (Concessions £12 per event or both events for £18).\nDiscount automatically applied at checkout when tickets for both events are booked:\n\n2.00pm – Maggi Hambling in conversation with James Cahill\n4.00pm – Darren Coffield\, Hen\, Mistress of Mayhem\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDarren Coffield\n\n\n[caption id="attachment_11440" align="alignnone" width="214"] Photo of Darren Coffield © Darren Coffield[/caption]\n\n\n\nDarren Coffield studied at Goldsmiths College\, Camberwell School of Art\, and the Slade School of Art in London\, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Art in 1993. He has exhibited widely in the company of many leading artists\, including Damien Hirst\, Howard Hodgkin\, Patrick Caulfield and Gilbert and George.\n\nIn 2014\, his contributions were recognised by ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’. He is the author of Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia (2021) and Queens of Bohemia (2024).\n\n\n\nHen\, Mistress of Mayhem\nA Portrait of Henrietta Moraes\nDarren Coffield\, foreword by Sarah Lucas\n\n\nPaints a vivid portrait of a Bohemian legend.\n\nHenrietta Moraes first discovered Soho when she was eighteen – or so she tells us. Her favourite sport was social climbing (heaven knows she enjoyed the exercise) and she was good at it\, going to all the right parties and simply gate-crashing others.\n\nFrom the summit of the 1950s bohemian scene she surveyed the life and times of those who broke all the rules\, such as the artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon (for whom she became a muse).\n\nBut that’s not all she did – as a key counter-culture figure in the 1960s Chelsea Set\, no other woman was more indefatigable in becoming a bohemian legend.\n\nThrough Hen\, you’ll learn how to steal your best friend’s boyfriend; enchant and ensnare a husband; blossom into a magnificent muse; dress like a comic book superhero; become a connoisseur of every illicit drug known to medical science and dose a Rolling Stones concert with them; join the caravan set and head along the gypsy trail in search of the Holy Grail\, before rematerialising as the minder for a mind-blowing pop icon…\n\nAlong the way you’ll indulge in the gentle art of cadging drinks; the feline felony of cat burglary; the canny craft of charity shop shoplifting and the haphazardness of steamy sex in second-hand bookshops.\n\nHen\, Mistress of Mayhem takes you to the epicentre of Soho’s Golden Age; stage by stage it forms a complete guide to a hell-raising companion.\n\nBuy a copy of the book from bookshop.org. - released 02 April 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Marsh Lane\, Harlow\, Essex\, CM17 0NA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Biography,In Conversation
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